Saturday, August 30, 2014

PowerShell: Getting the Drive Letter for a PowerShell Script

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A quick search online reveals there are a large number of ways to return the current path of the PowerShell script being run. PowerShell 3 i...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Visual Studio Online (cloud hosted TFS): Unlimited (no cost) users can Create/Access Bugs/Tasks

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Microsoft has created a new category of free users for Visual Studio Online (VSOL), namely Stakeholders. This user type has the ability crea...
Thursday, August 7, 2014

Managing the size of Screen Artifacts for High Resolution Displays

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Most Windows users set the size of their screen artifacts (text and other displayed items) to small. For the case of a high resolution displ...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

Visual Studio Online (cloud hosted TFS): Deleting a Team Project

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I often create temporary projects to test automating the build. The test projects ultimately need to get deleted which is where TFSDeletePro...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Visual Studio 2013 now supports Installer Projects

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Desktop applications and Windows Services have relied on Visual Studio's installer projects. The installer projects (to state the obviou...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Getting Visual Studio 2010 SP1 to run on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1

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A variety of projects I work on still require Visual Studio 2010 which is patched with SP1. Most machines I worked on are Windows 8.1 becaus...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Access 2013: Protecting the Programmatic Elements of a Database

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This posting presents ways to protect an Access database so that users cannot edit the underlying database. This means a user should not be ...